 | Philip Schaff - Religion - 2007 - 524 pages
...able to bear it. "s For he knew how to feed them. Who of us can do this ? Who of us can truly say : "To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak" ? * 4. Yet he, being so great a man, and chosen by Christ for the care of His flock, so as to strengthen... | |
 | William Safire - Political Science - 2008 - 888 pages
...substitution of baptism for circumcision as a religious rite. St. Paul continues two verses later: "To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." He justifies the means by the end in 10:32-33: "Give none offense, neither... | |
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And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To... 
